On 13/11/23 17:06, Roger Clarke wrote:This seems to indicate that the interpolations made early by linkers and others were pretty close to what actually happened ...
On 16/11/23 2:45 pm, Tom Worthington wrote:
Anything more known? ABC New Radio want to talk to me Friday morning. I am assuming it is about the Optus outage.
It might be worth running to ground who started the story (yesterday?) about it being Singtel's fault, i.e. inadequate understanding by a tech geographically and culturally remote from the area of ops.
It 'wasn't denied', and hence assumed to be true.Chatting to Nigel Phair at the ACS Digital Pulse launch last night, my impression was he had the same impression (but it was only an aside).
-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [LINK] Optus Outage Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2023 17:35:13 +1100 From: Kim Holburn <[email protected]> To: Link mailing list <[email protected]> Great post.>But here's the NEXT problem - all Optus networking is offshore. There's almost no-one in Australia who can physically fix it.
>So what do you do when your offshore outsourced network guys break your core network infrastructure, and you've retrenched everyone who can fix it locally?
>You have a 7 hour outage, that's what you do. Ouch!We have government and other services depending on a foreign company with critical infrastructure overseas!!!!
On 2023/11/9 11:33 am, Kate Lance wrote: > Hi Narelle, >> An interesting post on Mastodon from Rob Thomas, supporting the idea it was
> a route reflector overload - > https://mastodon.au/@xrobau/111376847362633903 [ Long post, that seesm to have been pretty close to the real story ] -- Roger Clarke mailto:[email protected] T: +61 2 6288 6916 http://www.xamax.com.au http://www.rogerclarke.comXamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA
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